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This event took place on the front porch of the house at 288 Chatterton Place, as Charlotte and I sat there talking it over. We had taken a suite at the hotel, but had come to the house of the Blind Spot in order to decide upon a course of action. And, in a way, that mysterious barking decided it for us. We returned to the hotel, and gave notice that we would leave the next day.
The extraordinary sums granted the king during the first years did not suffice for these extraordinary expenses; and the excise and customs, the only constant revenue, amounted not to nine hundred thousand pounds a year, and fell much short of the ordinary burdens of government. * Lord Clarendon's speech to the parliament, Oct. 9, 1665. * Ralph's History, vol. i. p. 288.
VIII, pp. 308 ff., and more recently in his Egyptian Literature, Vol. I, "Legends of the Gods" , pp. 2 ff. An account of the papyrus is included in the Introduction to "Legends of the Gods", pp. xiii ff. In Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. I, Chap. VII, pp. 288 ff., Dr. Budge gives a detailed comparison of the Egyptian pairs of primaeval deities with the very similar couples of the Babylonian myth.
Works of John Adams, vol. viii. p. 290. Washington's Correspondence, 1787, edited by W.C. Ford, vol. viii. pp. 159, 160, 254. Report of the Committee of the Privy Council, Jan. 28, 1791, p. 20. Chalmers, Opinions, p. 32. Jurien de la Gravière, Guerres Maritimes, Paris, 1847, vol. ii. p. 238. Canada, Newfoundland, Bermuda, etc. American State Papers, Foreign Relations, vol. i. p. 303. p. 288.
The financial account given by the auditor of the Columbian Fair stands thus: The entire cost of the Exposition to its close and the winding up of its affairs amounted to $26,288,685.67. Its total receipts were $28,151,168.75; thus exceeding the expenditure by $1,862,483.08.
'When I went with Johnson to Lichfield, and came down to breakfast at the inn, my dress did not please him, and he made me alter it entirely before he would stir a step with us about the town, saying most satirical things concerning the appearance I made in a riding-habit; and adding, "'Tis very strange that such eyes as yours cannot discern propriety of dress; if I had a sight only half as good, I think I should see to the centre." Piozzi's Anec. p. 288.
In figure 287 there is shown still another arrangement of these triangular decorations, the pairs forming hourglass-shape figures connected by an encircling line passing through their points of junction. In figure 288 the double triangles, one on each side of the encircling band, are so placed that their line of separation is lost, and a single triangle replaces the pair.
He has 25,000 at three stations on Mauna Kea, and, at an altitude of 6000 feet they flourish, and are free from some of the maladies to which they are liable elsewhere. Though there are only three or four sheep owners on the islands, they exported 288,526 lbs. of wool last year. Mr. S has also 1000 head of cattle and 50 horses.
"I think we shall be followed." And I was right; in a few minutes there were two cars dogging our wheel-tracks. I had no doubt concerning the Rhamda; but I couldn't understand the other. At No. 288 Chatterton Place we stopped and I alighted. The Rhamda's car passed, then the other. Neither stopped. Both disappeared round the corner. I took the numbers; then I went into the house.
Anything to pass the time. And thus it happened, that, about eight o'clock breakfast time at 288 Chatterton Place I returned to the house, and sat down at the table with Charlotte. First, however, I opened the morning paper to read our little ad. It was not there. It had not been printed. I dropped the paper in dismay. Charlotte looked up, startled, gave me a single look, and turned pale,
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